#MemeHistory Is Education Internet Style And The Best Way To Learn About The Past

History is vast and manifold and learning about it can be daunting. Sure we now have Google and Wikipedia to help us but retaining all that information can be hard. There must be an easier and more effective way to explain history to generation meme. How about memes?

#MemeHistory is the hashtag that has been explaining some of the most important and momentous occasions in history by using, you guessed it, memes. OK so it might not have the weighty analysis of an Harvard-educated historian, but it's definitely funny.

It all started when twitter user @TylerIAm pondered how Powerpoint presentations could now be vastly improved with the inclusion of all the memes flying around after he came across a meme used in a teacher’s presentation on Adolf Hitler.

And from that people began explaining Germany–Russia relations during WWII using Lenny from The Simpsons, or seminal moments in the civil rights movement using Beyonce.

It was glorious. Here's some of what people were posting.

Consider yourself schooled.

american education system in action

This is how it all started.

Making powerpoints would be so great now with all the memes out

Mark this moment - on this day #MemeHistory was born.

When Paul Revere saw the British coming #MemeHistory

When Harriet Tubman wake you up out of your sleep to tell you y'all leaving tonight #MemeHistory

NERO during the burning of Rome #MemeHistory

#MemeHistory Native Americans the day after the first Thanksgiving

The Native Americans when Columbus showed up and told them they were Indians. #MemeHistory

Reagan promising to fight a war on drugs but really disturbing crack into urban communities. #MemeHistory

The 16th century Catholic Church when Copernicus said Earth rotates around the sun #MemeHistory

"We didn't enslave them. We rescued them. Made em Christians. This is all fine. " #MemeHistory

#MemeHistory Titanic: I'm unsinkable! Iceberg:

#MemeHistory “OJ.. your wife is dead.” OJ:

when george w. bush stole the presidency from al gore #MemeHistory

The US when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into space #MemeHistory

Herbert Hoover after the Great Crash of 1929 #MemeHistory

When you picking cotton & the master's daughter is on the porch blowing you kisses. #MemeHistory

Every time a foreign power tried to invade Russia in the winter #MemeHistory

When Neville Chamberlain cut a deal with Hitler that he thought would prevent World War II #MemeHistory

#MemeHistory Is Education Internet Style And The Best Way To Learn About The Past

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